The following nonprofit organizations, consulting
and research firms, academic centers, and
foundations offer major resources on corporate
social responsibility, volunteerism, social
enterprise, and business-nonprofit partnerships of
all kinds. We will continue to add new profiles of
other organizations that offer significant resources
in this area.
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| Business for Social Responsibility |
609 Mission Street
2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-527-0888 phone
415-537-0889 fax |
Business
for Social Responsibility (BSR) is a global
nonprofit organization that partners with member companies to pursue commercial success in ways
that respect ethical values, people, communities, and the environment.
Advancing the worldwide adoption of business practices that build a more
just society and sustainable economy, BSR provides information resources,
advisory services, networking and collaborative opportunities to make
corporate social responsibility an integral part of business operations and
strategies. BSR member companies have total annual revenues of more than $2
trillion and employ over six million workers around the world.
Click here
to view BSR's most recent white papers on community
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| Business in the Community |
44 Baker Street
London W1M 1DH
United Kingdom
011.44.171.224.1600 phone
011.44.171.486.1700 fax |
Business in the Community is a leading
authority on corporate social responsibility in the
United Kingdom. Its mission is to inspire business
to increase the quality and extent of their
contribution to social and economic regeneration by
making corporate social responsibility an essential
part of business excellence. Business in the
Community works with its 650 member companies
(including 75 of the largest FTSE 100) to raise
business awareness of community issues, to share
information and expertise, to promote partnerships
between the public, private, and voluntary sectors,
and to match business resources with community
needs.
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Center for Corporate Citizenship
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1615 H St. NW
Washington, DC 20062
202-463-5517 phone
202-463-5308 fax
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The Center for Corporate
Citizenship, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, serves as a forum for public policy development on corporate citizenship issues, tracks corporate best practices, and facilitates partnerships between government, businesses and nonprofit leaders. The Center also recognizes achievements in the field of corporate citizenship and assists Chambers of Commerce programs in the
United States and overseas.
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The
Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College |
Wallace E. Carroll School
of Management
36 College Road
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3835
617-552-4545 phone
617-552-8499 fax
ccc@bc.edu |
The Center for Corporate Citizenship is a
leading resource on corporate citizenship, providing research,
executive education, consultation, and convenings on
citizenship topics. The Center’s mission is to establish
corporate citizenship as a business essential, so all
companies act as economic and social assets to the communities
they impact by integrating societal interests with other core
business objectives. It offers research and development on
corporate citizenship; publications including newsletters,
research reports, and white papers; executive education
programs, including a Certificate program; consulting;
convenings that include an annual conference, roundtables, and
regional meetings; a corporate membership program; and a
website that provides an online meeting place for the
corporate citizenship community. |
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| CIVICUS |
World Alliance for
Citizen Participation
919 18th Street, NW
Third Floor
Washington, DC 20006
202-331-8518 phone
202-331-8774 fax
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CIVICUS is an international alliance
dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil
society around the world. Its Promoting Corporate
Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship Program was
developed with the recognition that in order to
advance its own work, civil society had to develop
new ways of engaging and collaborating with the
business sector. Through this program, CIVICUS
promotes the concept and practice of corporate
citizenship, particularly in regions and countries
where such initiatives are less
developed.
See a brief overview of CIVICUS publication,
Promoting
Corporate Citizenship: Opportunities for Business and CIVICUS
Society Engagement.
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| Community
Wealth Ventures |
733 15th Street, NW
Suite 640
Washington, DC 20005
202-478-6571 phone
202-347-5868 fax |
Community Wealth Ventures
is a consulting firm that assists in all aspects of
entrepreneurial wealth creation for the social
sector. CWV is a for-profit subsidiary of the
anti-poverty nonprofit organization Share Our
Strength. Founder Bill Shore has pioneered the
concept of "community wealth." SOS also
sponsors a nonprofit education website, CommunityWealth.org,
that provides information on building community
wealth.
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| Cone
LLC |
855 Boylston St.
Boston, Ma 02116
617-227-2111 phone
617-523-3955 fax |
Cone
is a leading strategic marketing consulting firm that
specializes in helping corporate clients link to a cause. A
full-service agency with offices in Boston and New York,
Cone also offers general advertising and interactive
marketing practices. Founded by Carol Cone, the firm has
coined the term "cause branding"
to promote the concept of integrating a social issue or
cause into a long-term brand differentiation strategy.
See Cone's recent Corporate
Citizenship Study which assesses the major
post-September 11th shift in American attitudes towards
companies involved with social issues. Also available,
research reports on Cause-Related Trends and the
Influence
of Cause Marketing on Generation Y. |
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| Conference
Board |
845 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
212-759-0900 phone
212-980-7014 fax
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The Conference Board is a leading
business membership and research organization of
more than 2,200 companies and other organizations.
The Conference Board's mission is to improve the
business enterprise system and to enhance the
contribution of business to society. In addition to
research and programs in many other business-related
areas, the Conference Board publishes research
studies on corporate philanthropy and global
corporate citizenship. The Conference Board also
sponsors the Contributions Council, a group of top
corporate grantmakers.
RESEARCH
REPORTS:
- Partners in Strengthening Urban
Communities
- Community Connections: Strategic
Partnerships in the Digital Industries
- Corporate Volunteer Programs: Benefits
to Business (cosponsored by The Points
of Light Foundation)
- Giving Strategies That Add Business
Value
- The Link Between Corporate Citizenship
and Financial Performance
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| CorCom |
1313 22nd Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20037-3007
202-296-7638 phone
202-785-0216 fax |
CorCom is a nonprofit
organization that actively teaches businesses and
nonprofits how to forge alliances that help both
parties achieve their objectives. It specializes in
international development partnerships and works
closely with the United States Agency of
International Development (USAID) partners.
REPORTS AVAILABLE ONLINE:
- Making Contact: Negotiating a
Partnership between a Business and a
Nonprofit
- Ethical Issues in Partnerships between
Businesses and Nonprofit Organizations
- What Kathy Lee Gifford Needs to Know
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| Council
on Foundations |
1828 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-466-6512 phone
202-785-3926 fax |
The Council on Foundations is a
membership association of more than 2,000
grantmaking foundations, including approximately 250
corporate foundations and giving programs. The Council's Corporate
Citizenship Project, with 16 corporate participants,
has focused on developing a framework for measuring
the impact of corporate citizenship on business
performance. In 2000, the Council developed a tool
for individual companies to measure the impact of
their philanthropy. A similar national study is
underway.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Corporate Update (quarterly
newsletter for corporate members)
- Measuring the Business
Value of Corporate Philanthropy: Toolkit
- Corporate Giving and the Law--Steering
Clear of Trouble
- Integrating
Corporate Community Involvement for
Added Value: Trends and Case Studies
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| CSR
Europe |
78-80 Rue
Defacqz
Brussels 1060
Belgium
+32-2-541-1610 phone
+32-2-502-8458 fax
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As
the leading business-to-business network for corporate social
responsibility in Europe, CSR Europe’s mission is
to help companies achieve profitability, sustainable growth,
and human progress by advancing corporate social responsibility into mainstream business practice. With
60 company members and 15 national partners, CSR Europe:
- Popularizes the business case for corporate
social responsibility by
reaching 50,000 business leaders and partners through
print and online publications, best practice information
and toolkits;
- Offers business managers learning and benchmarking opportunities through
capacity building programs; and
- Promotes dialogue between business, European policy makers, governments,
civil society, and the academic community.
Through a comprehensive resource center,
publications, and website, CSR links organizations with
businesses to work together to tackle social exclusion and
promote job growth. |
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| Ford
Foundation's Corporate Involvement (CI) Initiative |
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The Ford Foundation launched the Corporate Involvement (CI) Initiative in 1996 with the goal of improving the participation of low-income communities and individuals in the benefits of the market economy. By influencing business attitudes, strategies, and practices, CI Initiative Partners are seeking to:
increase the flow of private sector investment into low-income communities to stimulate business development and job creation and to build healthy, livable communities;
improve the availability of financial services required to acquire and preserve homes, start and grow businesses, and build financial assets; and,
increase opportunities for low-income individuals to attain and retain family-supporting jobs.
Through the support of more than twenty organizations, the CI Initiative’s two primary strategies are: 1) To prepare community and economic fields for partnerships with business by building capacity within those fields, and 2) To build awareness, knowledge and leadership within the business community.
RESOURCES AVAILABLE:
- The CI Initiative’s Win-Win Report documents the strategies of leading companies that are investing in low-income U.S. communities in ways that make good business sense.
- Modeled after the report, the winwinpartner.com
website features company success stories and profiles of
non-profit organizations that serve as value-added
resources for businesses.
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| Harvard
Business School Initiative for Social Enterprise |
Loeb 34, Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
617-495-6421phone
617-496-7416 fax |
The Initiative on Social Enterprise at
Harvard Business School was created to address an
expanding demand among nonprofit organizations and
other social enterprises for management skills and a
corresponding need among business leaders and
corporations for more effective means of involvement
with the social sector. The initiative's focus
encompasses nonprofit organizations and for-profit
companies with an embedded social purpose, as well
as the activities of business corporations aimed at
benefiting their communities. The Initiative's
strategy is to leverage the core strengths of
Harvard Business School to create two-way learning
between business and the social sector, including:
practice-based research; educational programs for
social enterprise organizations and their leaders;
learning and service opportunities for the school's
MBA students, both in and beyond the classroom; and
programs for HBS alumni and other business leaders
to support lifelong engagement in social enterprise.
PUBLICATIONS:
- From Spare Change to Real
Change: The Social Sector as Beta Site
for Business Innovation (Harvard
Business Review, May-June 1999, by
Rosabeth Moss Kanter)
- The Collaboration
Challenge: How Nonprofits and Businesses
Succeed Through Strategic Alliances (James
Austin)
- Making
Business Sense of Community Service
(James Austin)
- Partnering for Progress
(James Austin)
- Marketing's Role in
Addressing the Poor as Customers (V.
Kasturi Rangan and Patricia Walker)
- Business Leadership Coalitions
(James Austin)
- Private-Public
Partnerships (James Austin)
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| Hitachi
Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative |
The Hitachi Foundation
1509 22nd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037-1073
202-457-0588 phone
202-296-1098 fax |
The Hitachi Foundation is a nonprofit,
philanthropic organization that promotes social
responsibility through effective participation in
global society. The foundation seeks to build the
capacity of all Americans, particularly those
unreserved by traditional institutions. Its Global
Corporate Citizenship Initiative funds projects that
advance the practice and understanding of corporate
engagement in society, especially in relation to
people underserved by traditional institutions.
REPORTS:
- Global Corporate Citizenship:
Rationale and Strategies
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| IEG,
Inc. |
640 North LaSalle
Suite 600
Chicago, Illinois 60610-3777
800-834-4850 phone
312-458-7111 fax |
Founded in 1982, IEG is a research and
consultancy firm on all types of sponsorships, event
marketing, and cause-related marketing efforts. IEG
tracks and analyzes sponsorships in sports, arts,
entertainment, and causes. IEG also holds an annual
sponsorship conference as well as several regional
events and seminars, including one on cause
sponsorships.
REPORTS:
-
IEG
Complete Guide to Sponsorship
-
IEG Sponsorship Sourcebook
-
Managing
Corporate/Nonprofit Relationships
-
Steps
to Success in Cause Marketing
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| Leader
to Leader Institute (formerly the Drucker
Foundation) |
320 Park Ave, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10022
212-224-1174 phone
212-224-2508 fax |
By providing educational opportunities and resources, The
Leader to Leader Institute furthers its mission to lead social sector organizations toward excellence in performance. The
Leader to Leader Institute has its roots in the social
sector and its predecessor, the Peter F. Drucker Foundation
for Nonprofit Management (which in January 2003 transferred
its ongoing activities to the new identity). Continuing the work of the Foundation since its founding in 1990, the Leader to Leader Institute serves as a broker of intellectual capital, bringing together the finest thought leaders, consultants, and authors in the world with the leaders of social sector voluntary organizations.
By providing intellectual resources to leaders in the business, government, and social sectors, and by fostering partnerships across these sectors, the
Leader to Leader Institute works to strengthen social sector leaders of the United States and of nations around the globe.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Meeting
the Collaboration Challenge: Developing
Strategic Alliances Between Nonprofit
Organizations and Businesses
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| National
Center for Nonprofit Enterprise |
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205, South Patrick Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 548-7978 phone
(757) 214-5084 phone
(501) 637-2807 fax |
The National Center on Nonprofit
Enterprise is a new organization formed to help
managers and leaders of nonprofit organizations make
wise economic decisions in order to ensure that
their organizations best serve their members,
clients, donors and the general public by pursuing
their social missions efficiently and effectively.
NCNE will assist nonprofits in making the critical
economic decisions they face in pricing services,
investing funds, compensating staff, fund raising,
undertaking entrepreneurial initiatives and in many
other areas where efficient use of scarce resources
influences how effectively nonprofits can achieve
their missions.
RESEARCH REPORTS AVAILABLE ONLINE:
- Corporate Partnerships: A Guide for
the Nonprofit Manager
- A
“How-To” for Joint Ventures
- Economic Decision Making by Nonprofit
Organizations in a Market Economy
NONPROFIT TIMES
ARTICLES AVAILABLE ONLINE:
- Nonprofit Ventures
- NonProfit Times Column: Blurring
the Boundaries: Will the Changing
Economy Change Nonprofit Organizations?
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| National
Center for Social Entrepreneurs |
Bassett Creek Office
Plaza
Suite 310
5801 Duluth Street
Minneapolis, MN 55422
612-595-0890 phone
800-696-4066 toll-free
612-595-0232 fax |
The mission of the National Center for
Social Entrepreneurs is to encourage
entrepreneurship through out the nonprofit sector
and to help individual nonprofits think and act in
an entrepreneurial manner. The organization, along
with its subsidiary the International Center for
Social Entrepreneurs, offer seminars, customized
risk assessment, training, and consulting.
REPORTS:
- Merging Mission and Money: A Board
Member's Guide to Social
Entrepreneurship
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| National
Health Council |
1730 M
Street, NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036
202-785-3910 phone
202-785-5923 fax |
The National Health Council is a
private, nonprofit umbrella organization comprised
of more than 100 national health-related
organizations, including over 40 of the nation's
leading patient-based groups, also known as
voluntary health agencies. These groups represent
approximately 100 million people with chronic
diseases and/or disabilities. The Council's mission
is to promote the health of all people by advancing
the voluntary health movement.
RESOURCES:
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| Points
of Light Foundation |
1400 Eye Street, NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
202-729-8000 phone
202-729-8105 fax |
Founded in May 1990, the Points of
Light Foundation is a nonprofit organization devoted
to promoting volunteerism. The foundation is based
in Washington, DC, and works in communities
throughout the United States through a network of
over 500 volunteer centers. The Points of Light
Foundation also works with more than 200 corporate
members to help them develop employee volunteer
programs that meet strategic business goals.
SEMINARS:
- Building Partnerships
That Work: Nonprofit Organizations and Corporate
Volunteers
PROGRAMS:
- Awards for Excellence in Corporate
Community Service
REPORTS AVAILABLE ONLINE:
- The
Partnership for National Service/Service
as Strategy Initiative (SASI)
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| Prince
of Wales Business Leaders Forum |
The Prince of Wales
Business Leaders
15-16 Cornwall Terrace
Regent's Park
London, NW1QP UK
44 (0)171 467 3656 phone |
The Prince of Wales Business Leaders
Forum is an international nonprofit organization
that promotes socially responsible business
practices that benefit business and society and
support social, economic and environmentally
sustainable development. In 1995, along with the
World Bank and United Nations Development Program,
the Forum launched the "Partners in Development
Program." This program seeks to identify,
analyze and promote examples of how business is
working in partnership with public sector
institutions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
and other private sector companies to play a
creative and positive role in the process of
sustainable development.
REPORTS:
- Managing Partnerships: Tools for
Mobilizing Business as Partners in
Development
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| Promoting
Public Causes, Inc. |
P.O. Box 11763
Washington, DC 20008-0963
202-319-1129 phone
202-319-1128 fax |
Promoting Public Causes is a marketing
and communications consulting firm dedicated to
advancing the philanthropic initiatives of
corporations, nonprofit organizations, and
government agencies. The company provides strategic
consultation, training, on-line services, and
educational resources.
ARTICLES:
- Cause-Related Marketing: The Rules
of Courtship
- Corporate Volunteerism: The Business
of Giving Back
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| SeaChange |
215
Leidesdorff Alley, Fl 4
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-291-9900 phone
415-276-1903 fax |
SeaChange facilitates access to capital and collaboration between businesses, foundations, philanthropists (social investors) and nonprofit social entrepreneurs for sustainable social
change through online and offline means. Founded in 2000,
SeaChange links philanthropic investments with a wide range of socially entrepreneurial initiatives. For social investors, it provides customized matches from prescreened profiles—anonymously, if desired.
And for organizations interested in working with entrepreneurial nonprofits, SeaChange provides a rich source of potential partners (domestic and international) addressing a variety of social issues. SeaChange also allows social entrepreneurs to leverage their requests for resources by placing them before multiple social investors.
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| Social
Marketing Institute |
1825 Connecticut Ave,
NW
Suite S-852
Washington, DC 20009
202-884-8276 phone |
The Social Marketing Institute is a
newly created organization dedicated to advancing
the science and practice of social marketing. Social
marketing is the use of commercial marketing
concepts and tools in programs designed to influence
individuals' behavior to improve their well being
and that of society. When fully operational, the
institute will provide consulting, carry out and
disseminate research on social marketing best
practices, sponsor academic research, and provide
connections among commercial marketers, social
change professionals, academics, and funders. The
institute was founded by Alan Andreasen and Bill
Novelli, and funded by a planning grant from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
REPORTS AVAILABLE ONLINE:
- Alliances and Ethics in Social Marketing (Alan R.
Andreasen and
Minette E. Drumwright)
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